Table 5.

Origins of the tolerable COVID-19 infection incidence heterogeneity

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Republican governor	0.0973∗∗∗	0.104∗∗∗	0.0999∗∗∗	0.0756∗∗∗
	(33.06)	(33.28)	(31.93)	(20.59)
Republican × Covid_Death		–0.00293∗∗∗	–0.00376∗∗∗	–0.00351∗∗∗
		(–5.72)	(–7.12)	(–6.84)
Covid_Death		0.00280∗∗∗	0.00291∗∗∗	0.00289∗∗∗
		(11.00)	(10.48)	(9.61)
Female governor			0.0536∗∗∗	0.0693∗∗∗
			(11.15)	(14.17)
South				0.0514∗∗∗
				(12.61)
Constant	0.174∗∗∗	0.0718∗∗∗	0.0656∗∗∗	0.0553∗∗∗
	(63.55)	(63.14)	(49.25)	(33.09)
Observations	6985	6564	6564	6564
R 2	0.128	0.138	0.158	0.183

The dependent variable is the US state’s tolerable COVID-19 infection incidence (λ). Standard errors are robust to heteroscedasticity of unknown form. ^∗ p < 0.1; ^∗∗ p < 0.05; ^∗∗∗ p < 0.01; t statistics are in parentheses